Italics, Underlining, and Quotation Marks  Do you find the rules about underlining and italicizing books, movies, newspapers, and foreign words confusing? Follow these simple rules to check your work as you proofread:
  • Citing Work: when to italicize or underline
    • Titles of books, plays, book length poems
    • Magazines
    • Titles of movies, TV shows, and radio programs
    • Newspapers
    • Radio shows
    • Musical Composition
    • Works of art
  • Citing Work: when to use quotation marks
    • Titles of essays and articles
    • Lyric poems
    • Chapters of books
    • Songs
    • Short stories
    • Episodes of radio and TV programs
  • Italicize foreign words
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